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| 3rd Covid wave arrives in Jammu; authorities still in deep slumber | | Audit of health infrastructure, equipment yet to be done | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 6: The third wave of the deadly Coronavirus has almost arrived in Jammu-the winter capital of the Union Territory but authorities appear to be still in the deep slumber.
Instead of plugging loopholes witnessed during the deadly second wave of the virus in health institutes across Jammu province, authorities are busy in cosmetic exercise. Credible sources said that audit of health equipment and other infrastructure is yet to be done despite the fact that higher-ups have repeatedly announced to do the same.
During the RTI reply of an activist, it was revealed all 165 ventilators supplied to SMHS Srinagar under PM CARES were found defective.
RTI activist Balvinder Singh has claimed that officials of the health department of the Jammu division have that the ventilators supplied to them are not of good quality and are not functioning properly but they didn’t give exact detail in response query, for the reasons best known to them.
Balvinder Singh claimed that the installation of defective ventilators in health institutions of Jammu division Jammu could be one of the major reasons/factor responsible for the highest COVID mortality rate in the Jammu division as compared to Kashmir Valley during the second wave.
It was demanded that the government should constitute a committee of experts to examine the functioning of all the ventilators installed in various health institutions of JK UT, supplied under PM Cares. Two months have been passed but no action has been taken so far in this regard.
Neither functioning of ventilators has been examined nor has an audit of health infrastructure been done so far. |
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